In an effort to better corral the BP oil spill story — for which Obama is being increasingly scrutinized, even by some of his most diehard media fluffers — Democrats have broken out an old standby: it’s all Bush’s fault.
Reached for comment, John Bolton’s straight-talking mustache, Regis, shrugged. “Yeah, well, what’d you expect? They’re assholes.”
more uses than duct tape and caulk combined
You know it is bad when the Times is mocking you. This meme started a long time ago, I heard it on MSNBC shortly after it started, something about the culture of crony capitalism and deregulation at Bush’s EPA.
This scathing commentary (like everything else from the left) is a political pose. It is getting to the point where it is laughable watching the transparent attempts by the media to salvage some shreds of the credibility it has lost in the service of Obama’s flailing policies.
People like Chris Matthews and the rest are simply trying to buy back some of their lost journalistic credibility by criticizing Obama on an issue that really can’t be considered his fault.
I worked in the Gulf of Mexico (in my misspent youth) on a production platform For Kerr-McGee. I can assure you that the federal government has absolutely zero capabilities to do anything other than watch and criticize as people who do have capabilities and incredible talents work night and day to solve the problem.
Obama is NOT to blame!
It is all YOUR fault!
Meh, they’re only practicing the chorus for the upcoming 2010 election, where all the nations ills will be attributed to Boooooooooosh!
Maybe they’ll reprise the giant paper mache heads and BusHitlerBurton posters.
bad genital hygiene – booooosh
What did you expect? Regis is a bushy, himself.
great booosh, less filling
We need more mustaches like Regis and fewer men like Obama and his cohorts in crime.
the poopy precedent strikes again
/but poop is brown – racist
The trolls are oddly silent.
President Plug the Damn Hole is letting them down.
I reckon it’s beginning to dawn on at least a few of the Progressives, among them the Current Inhabitants of 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 20002, that BP’s correct response to a too-forceful declaration from Washington is “white mutiny”.
For those not familiar with the term, the equivalent in Union parlance is “work to rule”. That is, you do PRECISELY as you are told, while obeying all laws, regulations, and rules TO THE LETTER. White mutiny is guaranteed to bring any bureaucratic regime to a total screeching halt.
If Obama, or the Congress, gets too strident, the president of BP need only smile, lean back in his chair, fold his arms, and say in neutral, cooperative tones: “Very well. What are your orders, sir?”
The mere idea should have any of them who can still think waking up nights in a cold sweat.
Regards,
Ric
Again, the current fiasco points out that the federal government has no capabilities to accomplish an actual task.
None as in zero, zip, nada. Nothing.
All they can do is order people with capability to do X, and that is stretching them thin since the people who make up the bureaucracy aren’t exactly a mix of Jack Welch and Jack Bauer.
The psychotic overreach of the twits at the head of the administrative disaster collectively referred to as the Obama administration have done more to expose the emptiness of the socialist promise than I could have ever dreamed.
Thanks, Barry.
Damn! Chimpy McHalliBusHitler is still running loose?
I can imagine the White House: ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome chimp?’ And then a quiet aside – ‘Uh…let him stick around ’cause I need that target way out there. You know how to do the old fire with the offsets in the rangefinders, right?’
cheney did it
Well Ric, I think you’re giving Obama and his Congressional wrecking crew entirely too much credit, that any of them think that far ahead.
;^)
Voting present does not appear to be the winning strategy this time around.
So, photo op!
i golf there for i am
“Dammit! Bush made me miss that two-foot putt!”
This nasty, itchy yeast infection I’m currently suffering from?
Booooosh’s fault!!!!!!!!!
Hasn’t anyone told BP that I won?
‘Sup Blackie O!, you put that Mexican bee-yotch in her place? She better check herself comin’ up in here all stuntin’ an’ frontin’. She don’t know you like that!
She better chill or else she gonna find out what it’s like for you to go all Souf side wookie on her ass.
I’ll bet Regis could get the oil spill under control; by scaring the leak shut…
“Comment by M’chelle’s home girl on 5/25 @ 9:48 pm # ”
Woah.
That won’t stop any future invasions though.
True dat. Just look at the US-Mexican border
Even the democrats are not buying this bullshit. Blame Bush, Cheney, Palin all you want, they are not in power, the problem is Obama who is President hasn’t done shit for a month and now dolphins and turtles are dying*.
Obama you killed Flipper and that Cool Dude Turtle from Finding Nemo.
* Yeah, claiming it is not related to the oil spill is really not going to work.
Turtles are dying?
‘feets, wherever he is, is so not going to be happy with the dirty socialist lying piece of Chicago street-trash little president-man.
(Did I miss any?)
Having one nerf bullet in your gun, and repeatedly shooting it, running and picking it up, reloading it, and shooting it, is the sign of a very low IQ.
As I’ve said from the start: Obama is an idiot.
Who’s with me?
I’ll be darned. All over the rightosphere people are blaming Obama for not fixing this faster, and even on the left side of the blososphere many are doing the same – and over here people honestly acknowledge that the Federal government doesn’t have any equipment to plug a deep water oil spill. Go figure.
I thought I was blaming you for electing a moron, Dave. And you didn’t pick up on that. Almost as if it was too subtle for you to understand. Because I only spoke about Obama’s low IQ, and called him by his proper adjective: idiot. And you missed it. Huh. Go figure.
Bush still owns the economy, but Obama is catching up fast.
Yea, David, but Katrina wasBush’s fault, right?
David Weisman maintains his streak of 100% asshattery.
Carin – The left will NEVER play by the metrics and standards that they apply to others.
And I will never stop pointing it out.
I’m not defending Obama when I say that he does not have the capabilities to plug a hole 5000 feet down in the Gulf of Mexico. I’m pointing out that the federal government doesn’t have any capability to do anything but screw up well functioning organizations.
Would there be a worldwide economic crisis if socialist governments hadn’t spent themselves into oblivion? Would there be a mortgage meltdown if the government hadn’t insisted on banks loaning money to people who could not pay it back?
The answer, in case you’re interested, is no.
Note: please do not bring up derivatives as the root cause of the mortgage meltdown. Derivatives were the method by which clever people on Wall Street insured themselves against the risk posed by the bad mortgages that the government insisted banks provide to people with bad credit.
Everything flowed from that. Everything.
Moe slaps Larry. Larry slaps Curly. Curly has no one to slap. Hows about you volunteer, David?
We should send Regis over to Korea to tell the North to settle down and behave.
JAA, we should let the RoKs kick the shit out of the Norks and take over the joint, thus ridding us of Kimmy forever.
Looks like the avalanche of shit that’s fallen on Obama the last few weeks has gotten his attention (today he at -22), so he strikes out on a path of making little shows of co-operation: yesterday he meets with Republicans on the Hill, pretending to want “bi-partisanship” (and he couldn’t even pull that off! Ha!), next week, he’s meeting with PM Netanyahu at the White House, and we may presume will offer a photo-op in lieu of the Rabbis’ suggested trip to Israel. This guy’s a clown in full on panic mode.
Won’t be long ’til they install a shark tank on the South Lawn for His Oneliness to jump over. Prolly goes without saying that he’ll make the jump in some sort of eco-powered scooter, and he’ll wear some ridiculous-looking helmet.
I just pity the poor Secret Service guys who’ll have to jump in and rescue him from the shark.
The trouble is Squid, that having a human-joke in that job just won’t do when the serious shit hits the fan. What will Obama do when the Israelis start slamming Iranian anti-air missile sites, moving on to Natanz and the rest? What will clown-boy do when the Norks start shelling Seoul? We only have to look to his reaction to the Russian invasion of Georgia: “Hey, why can’t we all just be friends, calm down and have a nice talk over coffee and tea?”
Fuck.
Yeah. Well, elections have consequences.
It is an injustice to clowns to compare Teh One to them.
The best we can hope for is that he has a nervous breakdown, and resigns.
President Biden, anyone?
It’s turtles all the way down, ain’t it?
Erm. Well, there was clusterfuckage after Katrina, some of which Bush’s appointees were responsible for. Or at least: could have taken action to mitigate, and didn’t.
Michael Brown proved to be a disastrous appointment, and wound up resigning about 2 weeks after Katrina. Chertoff wasn’t much better.
That there was clusterfuckage in the state and local response to Katrina just made things worse, and doesn’t cancel out Federal clusterfuckage.
There’s only one man that could handle the Norks and the oil spill.
Chuck Norris
I’m still uncomfortable with Katrina comparisons with this creeping oil disaster deal. The energy of that Hurricane would be measured in what, thousands of Hiroshima scale nuclear weapon equivalents? The two events seem too different in that respect to be easily reconciled.
Sure, I’ll buy that.
I suggest a great plug of quick-curing Bondo. Bondo, for fast, safe accident repairs.
What’s up with Bondo Slart? I’m not suggesting that the fix for the blowout is simple. Just that the blowout isn’t taking down bridges and powerlines across three states, isn’t knocking over microwave towers wherever it comes ashore, isn’t pressing high wave levels into the city of New Orleans and revealing poorly constructed canal levies and such. Or is it?
Chris Dodd was on the phone with Don Imus on Imus’ Tuesday morning radio show. Imus asked if the Obama administration is dropping the ball on the BP spill. Dodd responded it’s Bush’s fault and Imus openly mocked him. Seems all those stock Democrat diversions are striking out these days. Perhaps from overuse in trying to excuse rank incompetence in this administration.
Nor am I. Really, I’m just mocking some random, dimwitted notions of how to solve the problem.
You make a good point sdferr,
But keep in mind that the heat energy released in a large summer thunderstorm, discounting any electrical discharge, can also be measured in multiples of WWII era atomic weapons. Katrina was a rapid, violent, episode where the far reaching effects had more to do with rebuilding the areas where the people lived.
In this case I think folks are more concerned with the long term effects on the immediate sea life and the Gulf eco-system of the sustained exposure to both the oil itself as well as the chemicals used to try and disperse it.
Personally, I thought Gov. Jindal’s idea to quickly construct barrier Islands was a pretty good one. They could be removed after the episode was over and would protect the immediate coastline and wetlands.
That still doesn’t say much for the oysters, shrimp, and other bounty of the Gulf.
But, if the widlife withstood and recovered after the Chernobyl irradiation, I hold out hope for the robust resilience of Gulf marine life also.
“Personally, I thought Gov. Jindal’s idea to quickly construct barrier Islands was a pretty good one. They could be removed after the episode was over and would protect the immediate coastline and wetlands.”
I didn’t think so, since I read it would take as long as six and possibly eight months to complete and this, during Hurricane season. It might sound like a good remedial measure at first glance, but on second glance looks to me like a probable waste of time and money. But I’m no expert and could be entirely off base.
As far as the nuclear bomb solution goes, the writer is correct in that the Russians have claimed to have successfully used the technique in the past. And, it’s it completely unreasonable, as the water would absorb the radiation of the blast, containing it in a relatively small area around the wellhead. That said though, can you imagine the environmentalists dilemma; which would they be more outraged over?!?
Me, I’m gonna go with the bondo technique that Slart suggested; or maybe some good ol’ butyl caulk. I once rented an apartment in DC where the super believed that butyl caulk, much like duct tape, could fix just about anything-from cosmetic blemishes to leaky plumbing.
Needless to say I moved as quickly as possible…
I’ll admit to not having read much about it as I’m busy gearing up for the classes I teach which will be starting soon. But what I heard on the broadcast news (radio and TV) made it sound like a much shorter timeline. Of course, those sources have to be taken with a ton of salt :)
Maybe Jindal has taken a new direction in Government, under-promising and over-delivering?
Nah.
Erm. Well, there was clusterfuckage after Katrina, some of which Bush’s appointees were responsible for. Or at least: could have taken action to mitigate, and didn’t.
That, imho, is the clusterfuck of government. The whole ‘George Bush hates black people’; the theft, the graft …
It wasn’t all George Bush’s fault.
I was merely trying to point out that David was being an ass up there.
Yeah, that part was stupid. And of course David being an ass, well, we can’t blame that on Bush, now, can we?
Slarti – it is clearly Bush’s fault that Weisman is ass. He would not be an ass were it not for Bush.
Fish swim.
Birds fly.
Politicians screw things up.
Water flows downhill.
David Weisman is an ass.
The one that isn’t like the others is “Birds fly” because it is not inevitably true — some birds are, in fact, incapable of flight (penguins, for example).
Birds fly in the eye of a faithless daughter, that’s for sure.
*
Are the Obami thinking they can pull Sestak down and engineer another Bob “the Torch”/Lautenberg type switch with Spector?
“Who’s runnin’ round spillin’ out oil
Torturin’ every Arab he sees
Who’s to blame for Obama’s problems
Everyone knows it’s Chimpy”
Chimpy McHalliBusHitler strikes again! YEEEHAAAAA!
Where’s Sheriff Joe? Who can rid us of this meddlesome Chimp?
“The ultimate goal would be to bring the islands to a height of six feet above sea level, requiring a footprint of up to 300 feet wide. The dredges would pump sand from the bottom of the Gulf and transport it to another spot where the island would be built. That could take several months, but a dredging consultant working with Plaquemines Parish said dredges could build up elevation above the water line as soon as two weeks after work begins.”
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/barrier_island_defense_against.html
I thought that I had heard that the barrier island expansion could start having an effect in weeks rather than months. Of course, it’s not a permanent improvement but only a stopgap measure.
Too bad it’s taken the “Green” President so long to have the permits fastracked…
Think hurricane though Bob, or hell, even a simple gale and six feet isn’t going to even make the thing burp.
Easier just to blame Chimpy, Bob.
And use it as an excuse to put even more regulations and taxes on the energy sector. I think it would be the height of awesome if part of O’s visit to the Gulf tomorrow would be a Joe the Plumber moment with some oil workers who will never have jobs there again.